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Iain’s political blog guide needs your votes
Iain Dale is asking bloggers to select the top political bloggers for his 2007 Guide to Political Blogging in the UK. I have written an article on women bloggers for it. It means that bloggers and blog readers will choose who they feel should be ranked at the top, who...
My hectic summer hols
I am being pulled in all directions over the next few weeks. The school holidays are special to me because I feel I only have my boys on borrowed time now, if we can do things together still and enjoy each others company, then I shall make the most of it....
Conservatives and Rwanda
Vicky Ford is writing some brilliant reports on her mission to Africa, to the beautiful country known best for its genocide, to Rwanda where she - and other Conservatives - are helping improve the lives of those living in abject poverty. I know it...
My vision for citizen news networking
I have just returned from an Anglia TV reception in Cambridge with the local great and the good where the company said they would loan out video cameras if anyone wanted to record an event, encouraging them to be citizen journalists. I...
The Ealing Southall defeat
I had been hoping Conservatives would come at least second in the Ealing Southall by-election, but coming third was a bitter blow and a huge embarrassment. Tony Lit, despite his dashing Bollywood looks and huge popularity was obviously a flawed choice after it became...
Great quote from Othello
"Men are nothing but stomachs and we their food. They eat us until they are full and then they belch us." I would like to think that times have changed since the great Bard wrote those words in Othello, but what a wonderfully, descriptive way of putting it. And what...
The missing – Jovanna Stacey Crawford
Jovanna Stacey Crawford went missing on June 5, 1981 when she was just two years old. Sometimes, differing information is given about the circumstances of a person's disappearance, which is the case here. Some reports state that the last time Jovanna...
A day with Othello
One of my favourite annual excursions is with my Shakespeare buddy son David when we visit The Globe Theatre and today we are going there to see Othello. I love the wit of Shakespeare and his clever play on words and have yet to see an RSC production I...
The missing – Debbie Steel
In memory of those who are still missing.This is a local case for me, I remember reading about the mysterious disappearance of Debbie Steel, who ran a pub in Ely, Cambridgeshire with her former partner Brian McDermott. She vanished in December 1997 aged 37. I...